[media-credit name=”AP Photo/Patrick Semansky” align=”alignleft” width=”270″][/media-credit] Cleveland Browns quarterback Brandon Weeden looks down the line during the first half of an NFL football game against the Baltimore Ravens in Baltimore, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

On Tuesday (Christmas Day), the Denver Broncos will be on “NFL Road Tested: the Cleveland Browns,” a series on the Travel Channel, as the show follows the logistics leading up to Sunday’s game. It would all be more fun if Peyton Manning were the reality show’s star.

This season, the series is following the Browns through the ordeal of hauling an entire professional football team around the country, feeding, housing and getting players and the rest of the organization in and out of stadiums. The episode, airing at 8 p.m. locally on Travel, offers behind the scenes footage from the game at Invesco Field.

From the network:

Series Synopsis: In this first-of-its-kind series with in-season coverage, the NFL will provide unprecedented access to Travel Channel to unveil never-before-seen footage of what it takes to run and travel an entire professional football team from city to city, game to game, during the regular season. Every road trip requires a massive amount of coordination to haul the 150-person squad 20,000 miles a season. From feeding six-tons of men, to clothing and housing them, to how a stadium prepares and deals with more than 70,000 rabid fans, Travel Channel’s cameras are there to capture this massive undertaking…Episodes will focus around the weeks leading up to games played against the New York Giants, Baltimore Ravens, Dallas Cowboys, Oakland Raiders, Denver Broncos and Pittsburgh Steelers. When the game ends, the real work begins…and there are no timeouts.

The idea was to boost the “brand” of the Browns by hooking up with a cable network. “After Jimmy Haslam III bought the Cleveland Browns in 2012, he said the team’s brand was underdeveloped. The first step to rectifying that is winning many more games than the team has in the past decade. Of course, opportunities exist off the field as well, and toward that end, Haslam and the Browns have partnered with Travel Channel and NFL Films to produce this eight-episode series.”

Joanne Ostrow has been watching TV since before "reality" required quotation marks. "Hill Street Blues" was life-changing. If Dickens, Twain or Agatha Christie were alive today, they'd be writing for television. And proud of it.